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gwill··on The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
where are you getting trillions from? this paper estimates it at 10b.
gwill··on The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
well written. terrifying but practical.

hopefully calcium carbonate experimentation gets underway so we can learn about its effects.

gwill··on China consumer prices plunge at fastest rate in 15 years
you’re correct. 9 of the last 15 years: 2022, 21, 19, 18, 16, 15, 13, 11, 10.
gwill··on Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
it isn't priority by vehicle type, but by time that you arrive at the stop sign. everyone has to follow the rules equally. approach the sign, come to a complete stop, whoever was there first goes. if the intersection is full, then opposite pairs alternate with whoever is going straight getting right of way, followed by whoever's turning.
gwill··on AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU
I do astrophotography and stacking images is the only time I notice CPU performance. It can take close to an hour depending on how much data, so I just go do something else.
gwill··on DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
what was it related to? I thought someone reported a suspicious bag in the venue.
gwill··on Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'
it is not 90 days total per year, but the officials are strict on it. if they see you were recently in japan they may suspect you of working illegally. they also can say you’ve returned too soon and reject you. not worth the risk imo, even though a i know a few people that have done it successfully so they could study in japan without a year long visa.
gwill··on The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps
pulling your phone out of your pocket
gwill··on Will Japan see more marriages with Tokyo's taxpayer-funded AI-driven dating app?
do you mind summarizing the video? i see it's on why ignoring red flags may be a good thing, but i don't have the ability to watch it.
gwill··on Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip
yea, looks like the author doesn't understand the difference between a semiconductor and a chip.

the researchers said "functioning semiconductor".

gwill··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
It differed quite a bit. There were a handful that put in the same effort as I did and the few I've kept contact with are doing quite well. I'd say that just over half of the students stuck to core hours and most of them didn't make it through the bootcamp at all. I recall that many of those that stuck to core hours and graduated had some programming knowledge already or were exceptionally smart.

About a quarter of those that graduated in my cohort are in the IT field, but are project managers or something similar.

The bootcamp was in 3 phases and you had 2 chances to test out of a phase or you'd be kicked out. Of my starting cohort of 16 people, 12 of us completed the bootcamp. Our cohort grew to 22 people though because there were people that had repeated phases to complete it.

gwill··on Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
I've been programming professionally for 8 years now and came out of a bootcamp. I had taken some programming courses in high school and college for fun but my knowledge was very limited.

The bootcamp stayed true to the name. Core hours were 9-5 but many of us would get in early (usually 7am) and leave late (sometimes 10pm). I would also go in on weekends, sometimes taking Sunday off. I intentionally went to one in a different city so I wouldn't by distracted by a social life.

The focus was in ruby, then javascript. I got a job as an intern in C#/.NET a few months after graduating. I took the intern position because it seemed a tough sell to get a junior dev position right away. I was promoted to junior dev after just 2 weeks.

The school is no longer around, bought by kaplan and dissolved.

gwill··on Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs
yea my bad, just required to be able to use it and respond in english when prompted in english.
gwill··on Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs
thanks for the info!
gwill··on Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for plane takeoffs
it's the english phrase. all pilots and ATC in the world are required to use english.

it seems like the use of "number 1" made them think they were ready to take off, not that it sounded like a similar phrase. someone please correct me if i'm wrong.

gwill··on Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics
>For treatment, they then apply antimicrobial compounds and proteins to the infected wounds. They take these antibiotics from the metapleural gland, which is located on the side of their thorax. Its secretion contains 112 components, half of which have an antimicrobial or wound-healing effect

I was curious about this metapleural gland and found this article on its uses: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21504532/#:~:text=The%20meta....

gwill··on How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane
unless the strong man is the one that wants to open the door.

i think i've heard of someone trying to open a door mid flight once though, so unless i'm poorly informed, let's not give the TSA ideas around mental health screenings before flights.

gwill··on The Quadrantid meteor shower 2024 peaks tonight alongside a bright moon
there's a drop down at the top of the page where you can choose a shower/ or all of them.
gwill··on So I Quit Spotify
that and sharing with friends. also, spotify has made playing a shared live playlist usable (although why they don't add a toggle so tapping a song will just add it to the playlist when in that mode bloggles my mind).
gwill··on Ask HN: Reviewers You Trust?
i think your link for photography equipment reviews is incorrect, or i need to be more open minded.
gwill··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?
if you happen to use NextDNS or an equivalent, i added reddit to my list of blocked domains so if there is something i want to read on there it has to be worth disabling my ad block temporarily.
gwill··on Couch surfing predator: how a group of drugged and assaulted women fought back
i disagree. it's tough for me to explain but there seemed to be a really kind culture around couchsurfing that was about sharing space and experiences with people from all over the world.

the role of a host is at minimum to provide a safe place for someone to crash. i really felt safe at the ~10 places i stayed. I'm male, so definite bias, but i met other surfers that were female and had similar experiences to mine and female hosts that never had issues. profiles could have shaped the version of couch surfing i was seeing however.

gwill··on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
'Therefore' would have worked
gwill··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
deus ex machina was a complaint of mine as well, but as you get further into the story you realize how it's actual gods/ascendants/people causing the things that happened. some of those things were put in place thousands of years in the past. he does have several magic systems in the series, but they all have rules and they're followed.
gwill··on Dating apps lose their luster with college students
>What benefit or life experience do you get sitting in your apartment, or even in public, swiping left on thousands of faces in the hopes of one matching, vs. the alternatives like participating in other relationships, growing, developing skills, enjoying activities, and living life?

there are no time requirements on dating apps. you could spend a few minutes a day looking for matches and still go out and do all the activities you listed.

gwill··on Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan
it's changed pretty drastically in the past 10 years. aside from a few odd tiny bars, i think cards were accepted everywhere i went in tokyo and kyoto
gwill··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
this is pretty smart, i didn't realize the hotspot tells you how many connections there are although i don't really use mine. my mind went straight to bluetooth pairing.
gwill··on Covid's damage lingers in the heart
please read the article and use some critical thinking. it goes into detail about how the virus works and lingers as well as goes into data from well before the development of the first covid vaccine.
gwill··on Dear Spotify, stop treating your users like testers
and the like/add button doesn't have consistent placement or action. on some screens it still behaves as a like button and sometimes it's on the left. i had muscle memory to tap it and found i was disliking songs i wanted to like.
gwill··on CRISPR silkworms make spider silk that defies constraints
could this be used to make woven tanks for hydrogen storage?
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